The picture was seen around the world as the first hard evidence
of concentration camps in Bosnia.

"The Proof: Behind the barbed wire, the brutal truth about the
suffering in Bosnia", announced the Daily Mail alongside a front-page reproduction of the picture: "They are
the sort of scenes that flicker in black and white images from
50-year-old films of Nazi concentration camps." (7 August 1992)

"Belsen 92" exclaimed the Daily Mirror, making a direct comparison with the Belsen Nazi concentration
camp of World War II. (7 August 1992)

Ed Vulliamy, one of the British journalists present when the original
photograph was taken, later described the picture as of an emaciated
figure "behind the barbed wire of the Trnopolje concentration
camp." (Guardian Weekend, 10 April 1993)